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September 13, 2010
What’s the Best Canine College Mascot?
By David DiBenedetto
While I was watching my Georgia Bulldogs get their butts handed to them by the South Carolina Gamecocks I started thinking about the canine mascots of college football. (Full disclosure: I graduated from the University of Vermont, but since UVM has no football team I’ve stuck with my native state’s Dawgs.)
Uga, an English bulldog, hangs out in an air-conditioned doghouse on a bed of ice during the Georgia games. He’s only trotted out before the game and after a score. (Still, last year the gasbags at PETA protested the use of a live bulldog as a the school’s mascot, but were unsuccessful in making any waves.)
The bulldog is a popular choice. Off the top of my head I rolled off a few more schools with bulldog mascots: Georgetown, Gonzaga, Yale, Fresno State, and Mississippi State.
But then, of course, I was curious about what schools chose a genuine gun dog as their mascot.
If you stretch the limits of the term, the Terriers of Boston University make the cut, as terriers were bred as rat and otter hunting machines. Now they hunt ankles with equal ferocity. And there’s the Southern Illinois Salukis. The Saluki was bred to hunt in packs, often in tandem with falcons.
But the best I could come up with was the University of Tennessee’s Smokey, a Bluetick Coonhound. Smokey I began leading the Vols onto the field in 1953. But it was Smokey II who was kidnapped by some Kentucky students in 1955, and had a dustup with the Baylor Bear at the Sugar Bowl in 1957. Sounds like a gun dog to me. More recently, Smokey IX bit the same band member in two consecutive games and was replaced.
Am I leaving any dogs out? Have a favorite college football team with a canine mascot? Lets hear it.
Go Dawgs!
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Comments (24)
If I could be a dog I would be that one!
Reveille at Texas A&M.
Boy, talk about a dog's life! haha
You can't forget the Huskies of Washington and Uconn.
King Redoubt Washington Husky
The University of Tennessee's "Smokey" the dog mascot was actually just named to the Capital One All-America Mascot team. Can vote for him at http://CapitalOneBowl.com
After their defeat of the VT Hokies, James Madison University and my hometown Citadel Bulldogs.
looks like you're in for a tough season, dave!
University of Maryland, Baltimore County are the Retrievers. If that isn't a gun dog, I don't know what is lol
Seems like Uga has the life from that picture.
My favorite mascot is the Ibis (which may or may not be in the gun dogs mouth, depending on the day)!
Hey MABALLZ, we just refer to that particular mascott as the skinny swamp chicken. LOL Actually, I attended UM for 3 years. I usually rode my motorcycle to school--when I drove my truck with the FSU license plate, it would get vandalized--once they stole the license plate--probably still hanging in some frat house covered in rude comments.
As far as dawgz go, I don't think you can top UGA, and what a life that dog has, hanging around with those Georgia cheerleaders!
in my next life i want to be a bulldog and live in georgia!
buck ~ Thanks for remembering the Huskies...of both coastal schools!
And duckranger ~ Heck yeah! Go Purple and Gold!
"GOOO GEORGIA BULLDAWGS." The bulldog may not be a gun dog, but its one heck of a mascot. UGA has the life. RIP uga XII. Didnt know you were a GA boy Dave, I reckon there is another reason to read your blog.
From the looks of that picture, UGA is living better than anyone on here im sure :) Go Dawgs! Im with ya Dave!
Who cares!! GO GAMECOCKS!
i had a bulldog till last summer and there fun dogs(good nap buddys to!!) the coon hound is a great idea!!
my bulldog was sorta a gun dog he flushed rabbits for me
Congrats! you have memorized every single shoe type out there! ... why?
Replying to season_csu
This is not a site to sell your crap, it is a site for discussion of the topic of the posted article.
Go Bulldogs is all I have to say! Yes they did play like crap this weekend.
Prattsville, AR has a whippet as their mascot. Does a whippet hunt? A whippets pretty much the same as a greyhound for those who dont know.
but by far the best is and will always be Smokey of the University of Tennessee. GO VOLS
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The University of Tennessee's "Smokey" the dog mascot was actually just named to the Capital One All-America Mascot team. Can vote for him at http://CapitalOneBowl.com
If I could be a dog I would be that one!
Reveille at Texas A&M.
Boy, talk about a dog's life! haha
You can't forget the Huskies of Washington and Uconn.
King Redoubt Washington Husky
After their defeat of the VT Hokies, James Madison University and my hometown Citadel Bulldogs.
looks like you're in for a tough season, dave!
University of Maryland, Baltimore County are the Retrievers. If that isn't a gun dog, I don't know what is lol
in my next life i want to be a bulldog and live in georgia!
Seems like Uga has the life from that picture.
My favorite mascot is the Ibis (which may or may not be in the gun dogs mouth, depending on the day)!
Hey MABALLZ, we just refer to that particular mascott as the skinny swamp chicken. LOL Actually, I attended UM for 3 years. I usually rode my motorcycle to school--when I drove my truck with the FSU license plate, it would get vandalized--once they stole the license plate--probably still hanging in some frat house covered in rude comments.
As far as dawgz go, I don't think you can top UGA, and what a life that dog has, hanging around with those Georgia cheerleaders!
buck ~ Thanks for remembering the Huskies...of both coastal schools!
And duckranger ~ Heck yeah! Go Purple and Gold!
"GOOO GEORGIA BULLDAWGS." The bulldog may not be a gun dog, but its one heck of a mascot. UGA has the life. RIP uga XII. Didnt know you were a GA boy Dave, I reckon there is another reason to read your blog.
From the looks of that picture, UGA is living better than anyone on here im sure :) Go Dawgs! Im with ya Dave!
Who cares!! GO GAMECOCKS!
i had a bulldog till last summer and there fun dogs(good nap buddys to!!) the coon hound is a great idea!!
my bulldog was sorta a gun dog he flushed rabbits for me
Congrats! you have memorized every single shoe type out there! ... why?
Replying to season_csu
This is not a site to sell your crap, it is a site for discussion of the topic of the posted article.
Go Bulldogs is all I have to say! Yes they did play like crap this weekend.
Prattsville, AR has a whippet as their mascot. Does a whippet hunt? A whippets pretty much the same as a greyhound for those who dont know.
but by far the best is and will always be Smokey of the University of Tennessee. GO VOLS
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